LP #LPI 120 (soprano and piano; mezzo and piano; bass-baritone and piano) Duration 43:58. Faye Robinson, soprano; Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano; John Ostendorf, bass-baritone; Shirley Seguin, piano; Lee Hoiby, piano.
Leonarda LP
Songs of American Composers
Rebecca Clarke
(1886-1979) (England/USA)
Down by the Salley Gardens(1:33)
God Made a Tree (2:03)
The Seal Man (5:47)
June Twilight (2:36)
The Donkey (2:07)
A Dream (2:17)
Lee Hoiby
(b.1926) (USA)
In the Wand of the Wind (1:07)
The Serpent (4:17)
Winter Song (3:18)
Autumn (3:56)
The Doe (:52)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
(b.1939) (USA)
Einsame Nacht (13:30)
"Leonarda has scored another ringer with "Songs of American Composers." Baltimore Sun. * "Quite winning." Berkshire Eagle. * "The Hoiby songs are attractive at first encounter, and it is difficult to believe that they and the other pieces are receiving their first recording." Fanfare. * "A powerful piece." (Zwilich) St. Louis Post-Dispatch. * "Clarke's sense of the dramatic and her gift for melody are significant aspects of the quality of her writing... Most impressive." Philadelphia Inquirer.